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This book is a compilation of Gerhart Hauptmann's later dramas in prose, which include The Maidens of the Mount, Griselda, and Gabriel Schillings Flight. These plays probe the depths of human emotion and reveal the harsh realities of life.

This collection presents four gripping domestic dramas by renowned German playwright Gerhart Hauptmann. The plays explore themes of deception, betrayal, and redemption in gripping narratives that are sure to captivate audiences. Willa Muir's excellent translations ensure that the powerful impact of Hauptmann's original German text is not lost. A must-read for fans of drama and literature alike.

The Usurpers, was based on the diaries Willa Muir kept in Prague in the period 1945-1948, when her husband was the Director the British Institute there. Under the guise of Utopians in Slavomania, it offers acute, humorous and sometimes acerbic observations on relations among the British and between them and their Czech allies and opponents.

This collection brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece, The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka's eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.

This volume is a celebration of the life and work of Willa Muir.

Bankového prokuristu Jozefa K. prekvapia v deň jeho tridsiatych narodenín dvaja neznámi muži. Zatknú ho a oznámia mu, že sa proti nemu začal súdny proces. Zatknutého ponechajú na slobode, proces však pokračuje vyšetrovaním v záhadnom podkroví starého činžiaku. Jozef K. sa usiluje o ukončenie nezmyselného procesu, pretože ho súdia pre nikdy nevyslovené obvinenie. Najznámejšie dielo Franza Kafku je literárne brilantne sformulovanou otázkou ľudského bytia a jeho fungovania uprostred odľudštenej a zbyrokratizovanej modernej civilizácie.

Exploring the journey of love, this narrative follows a couple who, despite their innocence, navigate life's challenges and serendipitously find joy and completeness in each other. Their story reflects a timeless truth about the nature of human connections, emphasizing that such bonds are both unique and universal. Through their experiences, the characters illustrate the beauty of companionship and the enduring power of love.

When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work and having to reveal his appearance to family and colleagues. Although over the following weeks he gradually becomes used to this new existence confined within the bounds of the apartment, and his parents and sister adapt to living with a grotesque bug, Gregor notices that their attitudes towards him are changing and he feels increasingly alienated. One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century world literature, ‘The Metamorphosis’ is accompanied in this volume by a selection of other classic tales and sketches by Kafka – such as ‘The Judgement’, ‘In the Penal Colony’ and ‘A Country Doctor’ – all presented in a lively and meticulous new translation by Christopher Moncrieff.

Slavný román pražského rodáka doplněný o fragmenty, škrty a varianty. Šestý svazek díla Franze Kafky.

Franz Kafka's enigmatic, deadpan, and deeply pessimistic stories are central to literary modernism. In 'The Metamorphosis', the estrangement of everyday life becomes corporealized when Gregor Samsa wakes up as a giant bug and wonders how he is going to get to work on time. Kafka inverts the implied degradation of a man's transformation into an animal in 'A Report of the Academy', an ape's address to a group of scientists.